Marjorie Lyman Henderson Buell (1904 - 1993)

Cartoonist. A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she was born Marjorie Lyman Henderson. She is best remembered for being the creator of cartoon characters ‘Little Lulu’ and her friends including ‘Tubby.’ At the age of 16, she had her first cartoon published. In 1934, she was hired by The Saturday Evening Post as a cartoonist and […]

Marjorie Main (1890 - 1975)

Born Mary Tomlinson in Acton, Indiana, Main attended Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana, and adopted a stage name to avoid embarrassing her father, Samuel J. Tomlinson (married to Jennie L. McGaughey), who was a church minister. She worked in vaudeville on the Chautauqua and Orpheum Circuits, and debuted on Broadway in 1916. Her first film was […]

Marjorie Manners (1970 - 1970)

Actress. During the 1940s, she was one enduring performers in B-Western movies. Her many credits included “Outlaws of Boulder Pass” (1942), “Texas to Bataan” (1942), “Tumbleweed Trail” (1942), “Harvest Melody” (1943), “Blazing Frontier” (1943), “Western Cyclone” (1943), “Identity Unknown” (1945), “The Big Show-Off” (1945), “Accomplice” (1946) and “The Burning Cross” (1947). (bio by: John “J-Cat” […]

Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887 - 1973)

American socialite, heir to the Post cereal fortune, and wealthiest woman in America. Marjorie Merriweather Post was a businesswoman, collector, museum founder, and philanthropist. She was the only child of C.W. Post, founder of the Post Cereal empire.  When Marjorie’s father died in 1914, she became head of the $20 million cereal company that would […]

Marjorie Rambeau (1889 - 1970)

Marjorie Rambeau was born in San Francisco to Marcel and Lilian Garlinda (née Kindelberger) Rambeau. Her parents separated when she was a child. She and her mother went to Nome, Alaska where young Marjorie dressed as a boy, sang and played the banjo in saloons and music halls. Her mother insisted she dress as a […]

Marjorie Riordan (1921 - 1984)

American motion picture actress of the 1940s and 50s. Appeared with actor Basil Rathbone in the 1945 Sherlock Holmes mystery “Pursuit To Algiers.” (bio by: A.J. Marik)  Family links:  Spouse:  Allan Schlaff (1926 – 1972)* *Calculated relationship

Marjorie Stapp (1921 - 2014)

Actress. A pretty blonde, she is remembered for her numerous film and television appearances over a career of more than 40 years. An Arkansas native, she held a variety of jobs after moving to Southern California including a gig as receptionist for alleged mobster Bugsy Siegel and studied briefly at the University of Chicago; signed […]

Marjorie Weaver (1913 - 1994)

Marjorie Weaver Born in Crossville, Tennessee to John Thomas Weaver and his wife, Ellen (née Martin), she attended the University of Kentucky, and later the Indiana University, with interests in music. Weaver began her acting career as a stage actress in the early 1930s, and also worked as a model during that period, as well […]

Marjorie White (1907 - 1935)

Motion picture actress. She established herself as a Vaudeville comedienne in the late 1920s, appearing with her husband, Eddie Tierney. Signed by Fox Studios in 1929, she was featured in several of the early Fox musicals, most notably “Sunny Side Up” (1929) and Just Imagine (1930). She moved to Columbia Pictures in 1933, playing the […]

Marjorie Woodworth (1919 - 2000)

Actress, Model. A glamorous blonde, she had a brief but significant film career in the 1940s. The only child of a middle class family, she was raised in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, attended the University of Southern California (USC) where she appeared in amateur theatrical productions, and made her 1938 silver screen bow […]

Marjorie Zier (1909 - 1952)

Actress. Also known as Jerry Zier, she was most noted for appearing in early western talkies. Her credits included “Cactus Trails” (1927), “A Racing Romeo” (1927), “Phantom Of The Range” (1928) and “Dynamite” (1929). (bio by: John “J-Cat” Griffith)  Family links:  Spouse:  Michael John Patrick Cudahy (1907 – 1947)* *Calculated relationship

Mark Barton (1955 - 1999)

Mark Barton was born on April 2, 1955, in Stockbridge, Georgia, to an Air Force family, and was raised in South Carolina. Barton attended Clemson University and the University of South Carolina, where he earned a degree in chemistry despite an ongoing drug habit. Back in Atlanta, he married Debra Spivey, and had two children, […]

Mark Belanger (1944 - 1998)

Mark Belanger Belanger was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he attended Pittsfield High at which he played baseball and basketball. Where he became one of the first 1,000 point scorers He was recruited by the Orioles as an amateur in 1962, and made his debut with the club on August 7, 1965. He took over […]

Mark Bingham (1970 - 2001)

Mark Bingham was born in 1970, the only child of mother Alice Hoagland and father Gerald Bingham. He grew up in Miami, Florida, and Southern California before moving to the San Jose area in 1983. Bingham was an aspiring filmmaker growing up, and began using a video camera as a teenager as a personal diary […]

Mark D Frankel (1962 - 1996)

“Actor”- “world-class tennis Champion”. Mark Frankel was born & raised in London, England. Frankel descended from a theatrical/musical family. Frankel attended London’s Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts, with his peer & later co-star Julia Ormond. Frankel first appeared on the London stage then made his appearance in America on television in “The Fortune Hunter”, […]

Mark Dean Schwab (1968 - 2008)

Schwab was released from prison on March 4, 1991, after serving three years of an eight-year sentence for the aggravated rape of a 13-year-old boy committed in 1987. The rest of his sentence was commuted and he was placed on 15 years of probation.  A month later, Cocoa resident Junny Rios-Martinez, Jr., went missing. Schwab […]

Mark Farren (1982 - 2016)

Mark Farren began his football career with a largely unsuccessful period, throughout which he was dogged by injury, in the youth setup at Tranmere Rovers. Following this and a spell at Huddersfield Town, he returned to his home county to play for Finn Harps. After only one substitute League appearance in the 2000–01 League of […]

Mark Fenton (1866 - 1925)

Popular and prolific actor of the Silent Screen. Some of his films include “Alias the Night Wind” (1923), “A Fool’s Awakening” (1924), and “Double-Fisted” (1925). He died as a result of injuries suffered in an auto accident. (bio by: TLS)

Mark Frankel (1962 - 1996)

Mark Frankel was born to David Lionel Frankel (a former Royal Air Force pilot) and Grace Frankel on 13 June 1962 and was raised in London. Mark Frankel came from a family accomplished in a variety of the fine arts, including his grandmother, a concert pianist, and his grandfather, a prominent violinist and conductor. He […]

Mark Frechette (1947 - 1975)

Mark Frechette (December 4, 1947 – September 27, 1975) was an American film actor. He is best known for his lead role in the 1970 film Zabriskie Point, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, in which he was cast despite his lack of previous acting experience. He appeared in two other films made in Italy and Yugoslavia, Many […]

Mark Gertler (1891 - 1939)

Painter. Born in Spitalfields, London, Gertler was a pacifist and refused to support Britain’s involvement in the First World War. After the Battle of the Somme Gertler painted Merry-Go-round (1916). Considered by many art critics as the most important British painting of the First World War, Merry-go-round, shows a group of military and civilian figures […]

Mark Goodson (1915 - 1992)

Mark Goodson and long-time partner Bill Todman produced some of the longest-running game shows in US television history. Their first television show, Winner Take All, debuted on CBS television on July 1, 1948. The long list of Goodson-Todman productions includes The Price Is Right, Family Feud, Match Game, Password, Beat the Clock, To Tell the […]

Mark Hopkins (1813 - 1878)

Businessman. He was a 19th Century railroad tycoon, best known as a founding partner and Treasurer of the Central Pacific Railroad.  Born in Henderson, New York to a family of Puritan roots, he started his career in the mercantile trade at the age of 16, first as a clerk in Niagara County, New York and […]

Mark Lenard (1924 - 1996)

Lenard was born Leonard Rosenson in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a Russian Jewish immigrant, Abraham, and his wife, Bessie, but was raised in the small town of South Haven, Michigan, where his family owned a tourist resort. He joined the United States Army in 1943 and trained to be a paratrooper during World War […]

Mark Linkous (1962 - 2010)

Shortly after graduating from high school in the early 1980s, Mark Linkous moved to New York City, where he co-founded the band Dancing Hoods. The band featured Linkous on guitar and vocals, Bob Bortnick on vocals and guitar, Don Short on drums, and Eric Williams on bass. In 1984, the group released a self-titled EP; […]

Mark Naumovich Bernes (1911 - 1969)

Actor, Singer. Born of Jewish ancestry, he became one of Russia’s most popular cinema and recording artists. He was one of the first Soviet entertainers to perform for Russian troops during the Second World War, and during the Russian-Sino border dispute of the mid 1960s. He made his motion picture debut in the 1936 film […]

Mark Sandrich (1900 - 1945)

Mark Sandrich was born in New York City, to a Jewish family. His sister was Ruth Harriet Louise. He was an engineering student at Columbia University when he began in the film business by accident. While visiting a friend on a film set, he saw that the director had a problem in setting up a […]

Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)

Actress, Singer. She appeared in over 70 motion pictures in a career that spanned from 1914 to movie releases made after her death in 1992.  Born just outside Berlin, Germany, her father was a police lieutenant (other biographies state he was an Army officer), and she was noted for having a number of affairs, including […]

Marlene Rasnick (1944 - 2001)

Stage and motion picture actress of the 1960s through the 1990s. She co-founded the Public Works Improvisational Theatre in 1973. (bio by: A.J. Marik) Cause of death: Ovarian Cancer

Marlin Gray (1967 - 2005)

On the night of April 4/morning of April 5, 20-year-old Julie Kerry, 19-year-old Robin Kerry, and their 19-year-old cousin, Thomas Cummins, were on the Chain of Rocks Bridge over the Mississippi River. Gray, Antonio Richardson, Reginald Clemons, and Daniel Winfrey went to the bridge that night together. The two groups, who did not know each […]